Central and South America, Volume 1E. Stanford, 1901 - Central America |
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aborigines Aconcagua affluents altitude Amazon Amazonian amongst Argentina Atlantic Aymaras basin Bolivia branch Brazil Brazilian Buenos Ayres Calchaqui capital Cauca central Cerro channel Charruas Chibchas Chili Chilian climate coast Colombia comprised confluence continued Cordillera Cordoba course Cuzco delta districts east eastern Ecuador especially farther feet high flows fluvial forest formerly forms frontier Fuegia Gran Chaco groups height Incas Indians inhabitants islands lacustrine lagoons Lake land lower Magdalena Magellan Magellan Strait main stream Maraņon Monte Video mountain natives navigable nearly neighbouring northern numerous Orinoco Pacific pampas Pampean Paraguay Parana Patagonia Patagonian Paysandu Peru Peruvian plains Plate estuary plateau population present province Quichua railway range region republic ridge right bank Rio Negro rises river Santa Santiago scarcely sea-level seaboard side Sierra slopes South America southern Spanish square miles territory Titicaca tracts tribes Tupungato uplands upper Uruguay valley vegetation waters western whole zone
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Page 331 - ... for ages, and there appears no limit to their duration through future time. If, as the ancients supposed, the flat earth was surrounded by an impassable breadth of water, or by deserts...
Page 221 - It is modelled on that of the United States, the legislative power being vested in a Senate and a House of Representatives...
Page 75 - Colombia herds of cattle dispersed over the plains. Here and there the eye alights on glittering pools and lakelets left by the last rains, and now alive with an immense variety of aquatic birds. As far as the gaze can reach, the undulating grassy plain appears like a shoreless ocean petrified after a storm. No language could convey a true picture of the varied beauties of the scene — the harmonious effects of light and shade; the blending of the various green, blue, and purple tints flitting in...
Page 332 - Patagonia the monotony of the plains, or expanse of low hills, the universal unrelieved grayness of everything, and the absence of animal forms and objects new to the eye, leave the mind open and free to receive an impression of visible nature as a whole. One gazes on the prospect as on the sea, for it stretches away sea-like, without change, into infinitude; but without the sparkle of water, the changes of hue which shadows and sunlight and nearness and distance give, and motion of waves and white...
Page 332 - ... finds in after years that it still keeps its hold on him, that it shines brighter in memory, and is dearer to him than any other region he may have visited. We know that the more deeply our feelings are moved by any scene the more vivid and lasting will its image be in memory — a fact which...
Page 360 - ... the marshes and watercourses for many hundreds of miles are dry, they must of course traverse immense distances, flying before the wind at a speed of seventy or eighty miles an hour. On some occasions they appear almost simultaneously with the wind, going by like a flash, and instantly disappearing from sight. You have scarcely time to see them before the wind strikes you. As a rule, however, they make their appearance from five...
Page 155 - At the bottom, probably twelve hundred feet below us, and towards the centre, there was a rudely circular spot, about one-tenth of the diameter of the crater, the pipe of the volcano, its channel of communication with lower regions, filled with incandescent, if not molten lava, glowing and burning : with flames travelling to and fro over its surface, and scintillations scattering as from a wood fire ; lighted by tongues of flickering flame, which issued from the cracks in the surrounding slopes.
Page 401 - ... while the legislative authority is vested in a National Congress, consisting of a Senate and a House of Deputies, the former numbering...
Page 484 - Europe to correspond to it ; practically it means thick bush, having much the appearance of a wild neglected English orchard, overgrown with underwood, bushes, and grasses ; the trees are small, extremely distorted, and much scattered ; they are of extremely hardy varieties, and resist equally heat and cold, wet and drought.
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